Natalia Makarova to Return to 'Toes'

Published: February 1, 1983

Natalia Makarova, the ballerina who was injured by falling scenery during a performance of ''On Your Toes'' soon after the 1936 revival opened last December at the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington, will rejoin the cast when the show begins previews in New York on Feb. 27.

Miss Makarova had suffered a broken shoulder and head injuries requiring six stitches.

Valentina Kozlova, who stepped into the role, will continue to perform it in Seattle, where the show is playing through Feb. 20.

Rodgers and Hart's ''On Your Toes,'' is now scheduled to open on March 6, three days later than originally planned, at the Virginia Theater. George de La Pena, who left the cast when Miss Makarova was injured so that Miss Kozlova's husband, Leonid Kozlov, could join the show with his wife, will return to the cast.